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Date: Mon, 2 Feb 1998 21:19:46 -0800 (PST)
Message-Id: <199802030519.VAA07516@adit.ap.net>
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To: Bill Currie <bcurrie AT tssc DOT co DOT nz>
From: Nate Eldredge <eldredge AT ap DOT net>
Subject: Re: A patch for fsext.txh
Cc: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com

At 12:32  2/3/1998 +1300, Bill Currie wrote:
>DJ Delorie wrote:
>> 
>> > I just thought of something: Is it possible to have cross-references
>> > from one info file to another?  eg example sections in the libc docs
>> > pointing to any relevant examples in the knowledge base.
>> 
>> Of course it is.  Type "info" and you'll get a page full of examples!
>
>Doh! forgot about `dir'. Err, but what about nodes in an info file.  I
>don't *remember* seeing any examples of that in `dir', unless that's
>what's done in the fileutils and Tex sections (I never looked closely at
>those parts).
Yes, you can do that. The Info version of the FAQ has one at least; see
section 8.14. They also appear in the Emacs docs. Not sure offhand what they
look like in Texinfo, but reading either the Texinfo docs or the FAQ source
can tell you that...

Nate Eldredge
eldredge AT ap DOT net



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